The drone's laws state:
And the wiki page for Drones goes on to clarify:Your goals are to build, maintain, repair, improve, and power to the best of your abilities, You must never actively work against these goals.
Now, while the case law for bombs/nukes/etc is pretty clear cut, disabling/isolating a powersink isn't *prevention*, its active upkeep. Part of your drone objectives is to keep the station powered, and the powersink is obviously not allowing this.Law 3 gives your mandate: station upkeep. This is not the same as prevention! Upkeep can include repairing hull breaches, cleaning bloodstains or vandalism, repairing power issues, and generally what a Station Engineer or Janitor never does. This is intentionally somewhat broad. For example, setting up the solars is definitely okay. Building a fort in maintenance is probably okay. Dragging around the nuclear authentication disk like a party train is not okay. And interacting with living beings in the process is never okay. If you see an active bomb, you leave it alone. There is no damage yet after all. Once it goes off, the station is damaged and only then does your third law come into play. Use common sense or get banned.
No amount of additional power is going to satisfy the powersink, until it explodes (at which point you need to repair the damage, obviously), and per our general Rules:
So the drone knows the powersink is:Rule 2 wrote:Characters are otherwise allowed to know everything about ingame mechanics or antagonists
a) Draining power
b) Cannot be satisfied
c) Is an active detriment to keeping the station powered
With this in mind, I'm of the opinion they should be allowed to isolate it from the powernet, if not remove it entirely. Not just for general drone reasons, but also because the "counter" to powersinks is the Engineering forces of the station, which as well as Engiborgs and Engineering staff, also includes drones.
A traitor should be aware of and deal with the automated forces of the drones, if he wants his powersink to remain active, not be given a OOC free pass while the drones are forced to ignore their Law 3 and Rule 2 privileges and pretend they can't see the powersink.